Clothes and other things, just look at him less during the day from now on.
This kind of clothing should not be known to others. That afternoon, Tao Zhu went to work in the backyard. He was skilled in needlework. By evening, a cotton vest and cotton pants were ready.
Li Qiao put it on immediately, and candles were lit in the room. Tao Zhu looked at his outfit and quietly blushed.
Although it is a bit strange, this man's slender limbs are exposed, which is quite good-looking...
"You will also make a set tomorrow, and we will wear it together, as a couple."
Li Qiao took his hand and pulled him towards the shower room.
He wears it too?
this……
The next night, after taking a shower, the husband and wife put on identical vests and large pants.
Tao Zhu, who was wearing modern clothes, now looked like an outstanding college student. Coupled with his calm temperament, he became more and more attractive.
Li Qiao was very satisfied, and stretched out his hand to hold Tao Zhu's body, which was smaller than his, in his arms. He touched here and pinched there with his big hands, as if he saw Tao Zhu for the first time. He liked it very much and also Extremely rare.
The itching on his body made Tao Zhu couldn't help but laugh, and he stretched out his hand to fight back.
He really liked Li Qiao dressed like this. Even though he had seen her for two days, he still couldn't get enough of her.
The calluses on his hands had not gone away, and the rough touch fell on Li Qiao's body, which naturally suggested that something was wrong.
Just like last year, because it was hot in the house, Li Qiao moved his bed to the yard.
Mosquito nets are hung on the beds to keep out mosquitoes.
Smelling the soapy scent of Tao Zhu's body, at this moment, all the fatigue caused by studying and practicing was gone. Li Qiao hugged him and fell on the bed.
Another very happy night.
In the middle of the night, dark clouds came quietly, hiding the stars in the sky behind them, and also cut off the high temperature for days. A rain fell, and the weather became much cooler.
The summer rain came hard and fierce, so Xiaowu arrived late again. The road was not easy to walk, and the carriage got stuck in potholes, which delayed a lot of time.
Now that Xiao Wu's carriage is loaded with more snacks, plus the Zheng family's grilled sausages, the carriage will definitely get stuck in the mud when we go back. With only Xiao Wu alone, we may be delayed for a long time on the road.
It just so happened that Li Qiao's family wanted to deliver eggs and duck eggs to Wangyue Tower, and Wang Xiuying was now responsible for this job. Wang Xiuying had already resigned from the banker's long-term job, and she also took over the water fetching job.
In fact, Li Qiao could have dug a well next to the old house, but Li Qiao didn't do it for her sake.
Li Qiao had helped her for so long, and she couldn't take advantage anymore. Now Li Qiao's family needed a long-term worker, so she came to apply for the job.
She was very strong and could hold up a strong man by herself, so Li Qiao gave her the task of delivering eggs and duck eggs to Wangyue Tower.
If Xiao Wu and Wang Xiuying went to the county town together today, they could help each other. But Li Qiao thought that he had not been to the county town for a long time due to the high temperature in recent days, so he called Tao Zhu to go to the county town together.
Sure enough, Xiao Wu's carriage and Wang Xiuying's ox cart got stuck in the mud several times on the way. With the help of Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, the four of them reached the county town smoothly.
After once again suppressing the idea of building roads and scraping the mud off the soles of their shoes with a small wooden stick, the couple led the ox cart into the city.
The carriage was parked in the backyard of Wangyue Tower, and the two of them planned to go shopping in the county town.
However, before they could walk out of the back door of Wangyue Tower, they were stopped by Shopkeeper Wang.
"Quick, quick, quick, the magistrate is in the private room on the second floor. He wants to see you by name."
Shopkeeper Wang leaned close to Li Qiao's ear and spoke quietly and quickly.
He was busy at the counter just now, and a waiter came to him and told him that Li Qiao and Tao Zhu were here. He hummed and told the waiter to entertain them well, but he did not go to the backyard.
They are all so familiar, so there is no need for him to be polite.
As a result, the waiter's words were overheard by Jiang Zhixian, who came to Wangyue Tower for consumption, so he trotted to stop them.
When Jiang Zhixian wanted to see him, Li Qiao had to obey. He and Tao Zhu went to the most corner private room on the second floor of the front yard.
There were two young men guarding the door of the private room. Seeing the couple coming, they first announced softly, and after getting permission from Jiang Magistrate, they opened the door of the private room and signaled the couple to go in.
After entering, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu were about to kneel down and salute, but Jiang Zhixian directly smiled and said: "No need to be polite, I just came here today to taste the delicacies of Wangyue Tower."
He is still gentle and has no official airs.
And he didn't use "his official", which shows that he wanted to keep a low profile.
Li Qiao understood and called Master Jiang like the boy did before. Seeing that the table in Jiang Zhixian was empty and knowing that the waiter hadn't had time to serve the food, he said: "Master Jiang, the most important thing in Wangyue Tower is delicious food. I don't know what your preference is. Depending on your taste, students can recommend some dishes to you.”
"Actually, the food I miss the most is vermicelli." Jiang Zhixian said with a smile.
"Then you have to wait two months."
Sweet potatoes can take up to two months to harvest at the earliest.
Jiangzhi County certainly knows this: "This year, all the farmers in our county have planted a lot of sweet potatoes. Everyone is here for the vermicelli, but we can't let the farmers' wishes come true."
Farmers in the county have planted so many sweet potatoes, and there must be no mistakes in the vermicelli matter. If he didn't meet Li Qiao by chance today, then he would have to meet Li Qiao in a few days.
"The Sage wrote an article last month to discuss how to break out of the vicious circle of cheap grain hurting farmers and expensive rice hurting people."
"At the beginning of the chapter, the Holy Spirit borrowed the sentence from the Food and Huo Zhi chapter of the "Book of Han", 'If the food is very expensive, it will harm the people; if it is very cheap, it will harm the farmers. If the people are harmed, they will be separated, and if the farmers are harmed, the country will be poor' to emphasize the nobility of food, the common people, and the country. The connection between these three.”①
"But your vermicelli seems to have jumped out of this vicious circle."
Jiang Zhixian looked at Li Qiao with satisfaction in his eyes.
There is a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes. It stands to reason that the price of sweet potatoes will fall. After all, things are rare and expensive.
But the price of sweet potatoes did not fall last year.
The price of sweet potatoes this year will not fall.
Therefore, after reading the new article written by the Holy Spirit, he immediately thought of Li Qiao's vermicelli.
Relying on vermicelli, the higher the yield of sweet potatoes produced by farmers in Pingcheng, the more money they can earn.
Pingcheng jumped out of the strange circle of concern for the Holy Emperor, and that was his political achievements.
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The author has something to say:
The annotated one comes from "Hanshu Shi Huo Zhi 1".
Chapter 68 The whole county is going crazy with sweet potatoes. We have to work harder than before.
"Don't dare, don't dare, the students are just messing around, it's just a fluke."
Facing Jiang Zhixian's approving eyes, Li Qiao was very humble.
At the same time, he decided to go to the bookstore later. It turned out that the Holy Father had written a short composition again, and he had to buy it and study it.
In recent years, the policy questions in the imperial examinations have always revolved around Shengshang's essays, so whenever a new work by Shengshang comes out, it must be spread throughout Dasheng's bookstores at an extremely fast speed.
The weather has been hot recently, and he hasn't been to the county town for a long time. He doesn't know yet that the Holy Spirit has released a new work.
"It's not a fluke, you are indeed talented in this area. Young man, you are amazing."
After praising Li Qiao, Jiang Zhixian added: "Farmers in the county have planted a lot of sweet potatoes this year, and farmers come here for vermicelli, so your sweet potato workshop in Sanliu Village cannot live up to the expectations of farmers in the county."
Last year the villagers of Sanliu Village got a big job, and this year the farmers in the county are gearing up to get a big job.
The reason why he didn't transfer was because he wanted to do something big.
It just so happens that the Holy One has just written such an article, which is tailor-made for vermicelli. He will lead the farmers in Pingcheng to escape from the strange circle mentioned by the Holy One.
Use practical actions to answer this article.
So he must first do some work for the people in Sanliu Village.
Last year, vermicelli appeared suddenly, coupled with a lack of understanding, I was in a hurry and failed to maximize the benefits. But this year, I am well prepared and must make a big wave.
"After the wheat harvest, I roughly counted the number of acres of sweet potatoes planted by farmers in the county. In ten towns and 170 villages in the county, a total of 300,000 acres of sweet potatoes were planted."
This is an astonishing number, because the total cultivated land area in Pingcheng is only 400,000 acres.
This shows that farmers in the county have only planted a small amount of millet, sorghum, corn and other miscellaneous grains, and the remaining fields have been planted with sweet potatoes.
Li Qiao opened his eyes wide when he heard this number.
Three hundred thousand acres of sweet potatoes?
…
God, this is going to be a big deal.
Tao Zhu was also shocked by this number. His imagination was limited. He couldn't imagine the exact number of 300,000 acres...
"There has been enough rain this year. I estimate that the sweet potato yield per acre is about the same as last year. One acre of land can yield two thousand catties."
"If calculated based on two thousand jins, then 300,000 acres of sweet potatoes can harvest 60,000,000 jins of sweet potatoes. This is a sweet potato mountain."
Jiang Zhixian sighed.
The farmers in Pingcheng were so excited by the money in Sanliu Village that they were so crazy this year.
If something goes wrong in the vermicelli business, farmers all over the county will go crazy.
Therefore, the sweet potato workshop in Sanliu Village will be the focus of the county in the second half of the year. There must be no omissions and this sweet potato mountain must be turned into a silver mountain.
"Farmers have planted so many sweet potatoes and must be eager to cash in. However, the daily output of sweet potato workshops is limited. In order to prevent trouble and turn a good thing into a bad thing, I have an idea here. Please listen to it."
Jiang Zhixian already has a plan in mind.
First, production must be expanded.
Only by expanding production can farmers who are eager to cash in be reassured.
However, the making of vermicelli must also be kept secret.
Therefore, he hopes that this winter in Sanliu Village, regardless of men or women, all those who can make sweet potato vermicelli will join the sweet potato workshop to make vermicelli and increase the daily output of vermicelli as much as possible.
Sixty million catties of sweet potatoes, six catties of sweet potatoes produce one catty of starch, so this year Pingcheng can produce ten million catties of starch.
Roughly calculating based on the ratio of one pound of starch to one pound of vermicelli, even if the sweet potato workshop makes 20,000 kilograms of vermicelli a day, it will take 5,000 days to consume all the starch.
Five thousand days is nearly fourteen years.
So, if you don’t know this account, you will be scared to death if you calculate it.
